Dan Maes needs to get his facts straight, especially if he is going to accuse others of falsehoods.

Maes, the apparent front-runner in the Republican gubernatorial primary, wants voters to know he’s a successful businessman, claiming to have nailed down six-figure incomes in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Yet Maes declined to release his tax records to The Denver Post. However, last month he did release partial tax return data to the Tea Party media outlet The Constitutionalist Today, which published a summary of the information, but not the actual returns.

Now he’s claiming The Post “manipulated” the data.

The Post’s Karen E. Crummy wrote an article about Maes’ income based on The Constitutionalist’s findings. Crummy noted — correctly — that at least twice during the past five years, the small-businessman’s income fell below the poverty level.

Maes added: “They didn’t bother to show the six-figure incomes that preceded that in the ’90s and the early 2000s and they didn’t show the incredible revenue growth that we had in our small business.”

Excuse us, Mr. Maes, but the newspaper did — to the extent that your selective release of information made it possible.

“Maes, who often touts his business savvy and ability to turn around companies, points to his business gross income during the last five years,” Crummy wrote. “His business — Amaesing Credit Solutions — went from grossing $19,130 in 2005 to $309,815 in 2007.” (It then collapsed in the mortgage meltdown.)

We’ll add this latest moment of playing fast and loose with the facts to our list of reasons why Maes isn’t fit to govern Colorado.

Further, Crummy reported that The Constitutionalist claimed Maes’ family income from 2000 to 2004 averaged $89,000 a year. While that’s not a six-figure salary, it’s also the information that Maes provided.

And since he didn’t release information from the 1990s, his assertion that The Post “didn’t bother” to tout his income from that era falls flat.

We wrote in an editorial that there is no shame in struggling with a small business startup.

We get it that sometimes a small- business owner pays himself a low salary. But Maes has presented himself as a successful businessman who wanted to bring his winning business acumen to bear in Colorado.

Later on Rosen’s show, Maes argued with McInnis, who has his own ethical challenges, saying: “I want to talk about integrity. I want to talk about honesty. I want to talk about character. I want to talk about transparency.”

Many were not surprised by the prompt verdict Monday in the sexual-assault case in Denver involving Taylor Swift. A jury of six women and two men concluded within hours that a Denver radio host had groped Swift _ grabbed her butt beneath her skirt during a photo shoot, as his wife stood on the other side of Swift.

Touch not that statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville. Let it stand, but around it place plaques telling the curious that the man was a traitor to his country who went to war so white people could continue to own black people.